Install Avro Keyboard in Linux Mint

Samayun Miah Chowdhury
1 min readJun 11, 2021

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On Ubuntu, and on Debian’s testing and unstable releases, Avro phonetic is distributed through the ibus-avro package. To install it, simply do:

sudo apt-get install ibus-avro

On other Linux distros you can install the dependencies and build/install using the source code in this repository.

Open terminal/package manager and install following packages:

  • git libibus-1.0-dev automake autoconf make gjs ibus

For e.g. Debian 10 “buster”

As root, do:

apt install git libibus-1.0-dev automake autoconf make gjs ibus

For other linux distributions

You’ll need all related build tools like automake, autoconf etc... and to run it you need ibus and gjs. Use the list of packages above as guidance, but please note that some packages may have other names.

Now give the following commands step-by-step:

  • git clone git://github.com/sarim/ibus-avro.git cd ibus-avro aclocal && autoconf && automake --add-missing ./configure --prefix=/usr sudo make install

Usage

  1. Run IBus (Applications -> System Tools -> IBus) from Dash
  2. Open IBus Preferences from the top panel icon
  3. Go to Input method
  4. Select an input method -> Bengali -> Avro
  5. Now Click Add button to add Avro to the list
  6. Now restart IBus from the top panel icon (Right Click -> Restart)
  7. Now Press Ctrl+Space to toggle between English and Avro (Bengali)
  8. Enjoy Avro Phonetic!

apt install git libibus-1.0-dev automake autoconf make gjs ibus

Any problem

$HOME:./bashrc

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@m=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

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Samayun Miah Chowdhury
Samayun Miah Chowdhury

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